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Lab number
S-2711
Field number
85-DCA-377
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus vertebra (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
5 km southeast of stream entering Birthday Bay, near Lyons Point, 11.5 m asl, Barrow Strait, Prince of Wales Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
68 A/15
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
3500 ± 80
Normalized Age
3660 ± 80
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
gravel on a raised beach overlooking Barrow Strait and Peel Sound, 11.5 m asl
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
PeLd-VP: A large number of bones, including a skull base, most nearly completely buried in beach gravel, were scattered along a single raised beach ridge over a 75 metre distance. Possibly an entire skeleton was present. Two vertebrae were collected, one from the surface, one buried.

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